US EditionHolocaust survivors group urges German auction house to halt sale of artifacts
The auction of over 600 Holocaust-related items was canceled after backlash from survivor groups who said the sale commodified victims' personal and historical documents.
- The International Auschwitz Committee, a Berlin-based survivors group, demanded cancellation of the Felzmann auction house sale titled `The System of Terror` scheduled Monday of more than 600 Holocaust artifacts.
- The committee said many items name individuals and therefore raise privacy concerns, while Christoph Heubner said persecution records belong to families and should be in museums or memorial exhibitions.
- The dealer advertised 627 items and more than 600 lots, including Gestapo index cards, prisoners' letters, and a file documenting forced sterilisation at Dachau , with starting bids of 350 euros and 120 euros.
- On Sunday the auction listing was removed from Auktionhaus Felzmann's website by mid-afternoon, while the house did not immediately respond to media inquiries.
- Intervening officials and survivors pressed for return of items to families and museums as Felzmann auction house agreed Sunday to cancel after Germany's foreign minister and the International Auschwitz Committee intervened.
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German Auction House Cancels Sale of Holocaust Artifacts Following Outrage
People with Israeli flags attend the International March of the Living at the former Auschwitz Nazi German death camp, in Brzezinka near Oswiecim, Poland, May 6, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Kuba Stezycki An auction house in Germany canceled a sale of hundreds of Holocaust artifacts – including letters written by German concentration camp prisoners to their loved ones — that was scheduled to take place on Monday following intense backlash from an associ…
The Government of Poland and the organizations of survivors and study of the Holocaust had condemned the sale. Jewish letters and papers, documents from the Gestapo to the stars of David go to the lion.
German auction house calls off 'shameless' sale of concentration camp artifacts
An auction house in Germany canceled the sale of hundreds of items that belonged to Holocaust victims a day before it was set to take place. The Felzmann auction house planned to offer 623 artifacts, including letters from concentration camps and documents detailing Nazi crimes, in the western German city of Neuss on Monday. After outcry from a Holocaust survivor group, the auction was canceled on Sunday and its listing disappeared from the hous…
Holocaust memorabilia auction called off
An auction of Holocaust artifacts, including letters from the dead and Nazi administative documents, was called off in Germany after complaints from survivors. Poland's foreign minister said the "offensive" event was a scandal and that he and his German counterpart had made sure it would not go ahead. — Read the rest The post Holocaust memorabilia auction called off appeared first on Boing Boing.
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